I know little about Chinese, but I have the impression that it is much more
common for several traditional characters to correspond to one simplified
character than vice versa. If that's true, it seems to me that it would make
most sense to fold to simplified.
Hmmm ... Suppose I'm
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:23:42 -0800 (PST), Zhang Weiwu wrote:
I never saw 500B and 4E2A in one same printed document as I lived in China for
20 years. (Well, need to remove the years I cannot read:) Unless you have a
obvious reason to do so, to print a book with Traditional characters is
Andrew C. West scripsit:
Interestingly, the dictionary quotes Zheng Xuan, writing in the 2nd century
A.D., as stating that U+4E2A (the modern simplified form) is the correct form
of the character, and that U+500B (the modern traditional form) is a vulgar
substitute !
IIRC this is true of
On the last day of the consultation period I wonder if I may add a few notes
about tags and plane 14.
An interesting point is that there exists the possibility of defining
additional types of tagging using codes U+E0002 through to U+E001A.
Yesterday evening I began wondering for what matters
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Take it easy, if you find one 500B (the measure word) it is usually enough to
say it is traditional Chinese, one 4E2A (measure word) is in simplified
Chinese. They never happen together in a logically correct document.
Others have already given examples
At 13:38 + 2003-02-14, William Overington wrote:
Books in libraries are often classified with a code consisting of digits and
a full stop character. For example, the number 515.53 is on a label which
is still on the spine of a book which I bought in a sale of withdrawn books
from a library.
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
Anyway, while there are gaps in this font, of course there are gaps
in all the other fonts out there as well. Announcing, then, the
biggest monowidth font I'm aware of Please see
http://www.evertype.com/emono/
Well, since many of us can't
Under Mac OS X, Explorer 5.2.2 displays a euro sign above the red
title bar, creating a white bar which pushes the red bar down. This
doesn't occur on other pages.
Safari doesn't display the euro sign but the white bar is there. Same
for OmniWeb. I tried to use UnicodeChecker in the OS X
At 18:44 +0330 2003-02-14, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
Well, since many of us can't open that on a PC, would you tell us
the number of glyphs so we can correct you if we found about any
bigger monowidth font?
7,072
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
Well, since many of us can't open that on a PC, would you tell us
the number of glyphs so we can correct you if we found about any
bigger monowidth font?
7,072
Wow! The next biggest monowidth non-CJK font I know, has just 5,013. It
has Latin,
William Overington wrote:
Books in libraries are often classified with a code consisting
of digits and a full stop character.
And there are already long-established standards for library catalogs and
computerization of same. Ask your local librarian about MARC for
instance.
Rick
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:45:44 -0800 (PST), Thomas Chan wrote:
I think zhe4 'this' (simp U+8FD9 / trad U+9019) might be better for a very
simple heuristic for modern text, since it occupies position #11 in at
least one frequency list (compared to #15 for the above-cited ge4), and as
far as I
Andrew C. West scripsit:
On a related matter, I was wondering about language tagging for Chinese. zh-CN
and zh-TW are used quite frequently, but what do they imply ?
They are usually (mis)used to mean Mandarin, simplified characters and
Mandarin, traditional characters respectively. IMHO, the
Two people have recently asked me how to convert TrueType fonts to make them
Unicode compliant. One person wants to do this for Cyrillic, and the other
for Byzantine Musical Symbols.
I know nothing about creating or modifying fonts, so I hope one of you will
be willing to share your expertise.
I first made Everson Mono glyphs in 8-bit font sets in 1994. I've
always been a perfectionist, but huge fonts are just so huge...
there's never a good time to release, so why not now? (Several
people have written to nag me about it.
Very interesting. I've been using Code2000, but this might
At 07:25 AM 2/14/2003, Michael Everson wrote:
At 18:44 +0330 2003-02-14, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
Well, since many of us can't open that on a PC, would you tell us the
number of glyphs so we can correct you if we found about any bigger
monowidth font?
7,072
Andale Mono WT from Monotype
At 09:00 AM 2/14/2003, Alan Wood wrote:
Two people have recently asked me how to convert TrueType fonts to make them
Unicode compliant. One person wants to do this for Cyrillic, and the other
for Byzantine Musical Symbols.
The easiest way to do this is to invest in a commercial font
At 09:12 -0800 2003-02-14, John Hudson wrote:
At 07:25 AM 2/14/2003, Michael Everson wrote:
At 18:44 +0330 2003-02-14, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
Well, since many of us can't open that on a PC, would you tell us
the number of glyphs so we can correct you if we found about any
bigger monowidth
On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 01:12 PM, John Hudson wrote:
Another option for re-encoding fonts is to hack the font cmap table
itself. The easiest way to do this is probably with Just van Rossum's
TTX tool. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/. This is a
Python-based open source
Basic Latin
Latin 1
Latin Extended-A
Latin Extended-B
IPA Extensions
Spacing Modifier Letters
Combining Diacritical Marks
Greek and Coptic
Cyrillic
Cyrillic Supplement
Armenian
Hebrew
Georgian
Cherokee
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
Ogham
Runic
Phonetic Extensions
Latin Extended Additional
Oh yeah, and Yijing Hexagram Symbols (*** nearly)
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
.
William Overington wrote on the subject of Plane Fourteen tags
and closed with a haiku.
Since the best arguments in favor of not deprecating Plane
Fourteen tags of necessity involve suggested or potential
uses for those characters, and it has been mentioned that
discussing such potential is
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